Looking at Landing Sites for the Mars Science Laboratory
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They chose Gale Crater! Yayyy!
SpaceAnimator 5 months ago
You know, when they decide on a landing site for the new rover, the JPLnews youtube channel should post that video as a video-response to this video. That would be cool to see after watching this video, which by the way, is utterly fascinating.
TableWolfMusic 1 year ago
@Noogymonster I meant, the helium could inflate an airbag beneath the rover to free the sunken wheels from the soil. Then the airbag would deflate.
TableWolfMusic 1 year ago
@TableWolfMusic How would the helium stop from making the rover float all together.
Noogymonster 1 year ago
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rileystephak 1 year ago
this is so cool.
zacatecano1986 1 year ago
I'm not from JPL but I think I have the answer. Spirit and Opportunity were built specifically as low cost rovers as part of a program at NASA to send cheap Orbiters/ rovers to other celestial bodies.
The Mars Science Laboratory is not part of this program. To give you a cost break down, spirit and opporunity each cost a couple hundred million to make. The MSL on the other hand will end up costing a couple BILLION. Building a second of these may just be too expensive for NASA's budget.
pacificguitarist 2 years ago
Good point. Besides, the rover is gonna get stuck on a rock or something eventually (as happened recently). So it might aswell get stuck somewhere interesting.
Speaking of getting stuck, cant they have some helium balloon or similar to inflate from a pod on the back of the rover and lift it out of being stuck?
Seems a shame to waste that helium that got vented from the lander they dropped at the north pole. That's if they use helium on the rovers.
Its a hamfisted idea but an idea nonetheless.
TableWolfMusic 2 years ago
This video is also on Nasa videogallery
Final candidate landing sites and reasons are:
North
Mawrth Vallis -Diverse mineral signatures -Mixing of soils by impacts and water
South
Holden Crater -Indicates water flowed from valley into crater lake, overflowing, leaving layers
Eberswalde Crater -Water obviously flowed out of highlands into crater
Equator
Gale Crater -Once filled with water Many minerals exist ie Sulplates Sediments Clay
I hope it's Gale. Once equator was warmer? Likelier life.
TableWolfMusic 2 years ago
I'd like to see some mountains in the pictures that come back from Mars. Viking, Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity all have very 'flat' surroundings. I know it's more safe for those probes to land in such areas... but some mountains on the horizons would be a nice change in the photos sent back from Mars.
Tanru2000 2 years ago